Authorities say a Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died Tuesday while fighting a structure fire.

Authorities say a Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died while fighting a house fire.

Rural Texans are more than twice as likely to go without homeowners insurance than their urban peers.

As firefighters work on their fifth straight day of trying to put out wildfires burning in the Texas Panhandle, the race is on to beat a weather forecast that favors wildfires burning uncontrollably.

Shaken by the devastation, families find comfort in each other as they pick through the rubble and commune at a church in nearby Borger.

Texas has a wildfire season in winter, but climate change is extending it, scientists say.

The largest wildfire ever to burn in the State of Texas continues its path of destruction across the Texas Panhandle.

As the largest wildfire in Texas history continues to rage in the panhandle, hundreds of firefighters are rushing to help put out the flames.

The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community.